remarks of elian: should be available only to logged-in users who provided an
e-mail-address to prevent abuse and potential legal trouble.

But this would very much reduce the usefulness of this feature. I can imagine
many casual readers sending articles to their friends, who are experts in a
certain field, to judge and maybe correct them.

There might be a legal risk, and we have to look into this, but OTOH many sites
have such a feature, e.g. heise.de.

Personally, I think this feature is perfectly feasible even without restricting
it to logged-in users, as long as an IP ban can be used to prevent persistent
abusers from using it. Additionally, maybe there should be a rate limit.

I am against, because it means that emails will be sent and this is allways
complicated or makes things more complex/new problems.

Dear Thilo,

I have programmed Email notification and authentication. Assumed, that the
sender (the one who will send an article to a friend) and the recipient
(=friend) have both authenticated addresses, which will be prerequisite in 1.5
to make use of the enhanced email features such as EmailUser and ENotif, I
currently don't see any reason, why this feature should not be allowed for
registered users.

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